junk vs trash

junk

noun
  • Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage. 

  • A Chinese sailing vessel. 

  • The genitalia, especially of a male. 

  • A collection of miscellaneous items of little value. 

  • Any narcotic drug, especially heroin. 

  • Salt beef. 

  • Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

  • Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value. 

verb
  • To throw away. 

  • To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop) 

trash

noun
  • Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. 

  • A container into which things are discarded. 

  • Something worthless or of poor quality. 

  • (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks. 

  • The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning. 

  • A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful. 

  • (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.) 

  • Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary. 

  • Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades. 

verb
  • To disrespect someone or something 

  • To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop. 

  • To make into a mess. 

  • To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. 

  • To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. 

  • To discard. 

  • To beat soundly in a game. 

How often have the words junk and trash occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )